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Airport Artistry

Friday, February 27, 2026
Presented by: Fredy Huaman Mallqui and Jason Boone
Back Channel School of Woodworking
831 Broadway Avenue
McKees Rocks, PA 15136
Virtual Meeting Available

Meeting Agenda

Meeting Date: February 27, 2026

 

Please enter the shop through the door at the rear of the building. All of the doors on the Broadway side of the building are kept locked.

 

5:30 to 6:15 PM: Set up A/V equipment and refreshments for the meeting.

 

6:15 PM: Doors open for coffee and some treat; come socialize with your fellow woodworkers.

 

7:00 PM: Meeting starts

 

On-street parking meters (coins only) are NOT enforced on Broadway during evening hours, so it’s fine to park there or in the next block where you see all of the houses, as well as on adjacent side streets. There is also a free, large, paved and lighted parking lot behind the shop.  You may park in numbered spots, but please don’t park in spots marked “Reserved.”

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About the Presenters

Fredy Huaman Mallqui

Fredy moved to the United States from Ayacucho, Peru in Spring 2012 carrying his wood carving tools that served as extensions of his own hands and his design philosophy. Fredy also brought with him the most precious tools: sensibility, creativity, skills, and expertise that he has accumulated since he started his woodcarving profession at the age of nine. His carving pieces are not just merely decorative pieces, they are intricate pieces of art. Exquisitely detailed and of the highest quality of craftsmanship.

Fredy’s work demonstrates his learning throughout the years from several master carvers, as well as the development and mastery of his own techniques of designing and hand carving unique pieces of art. Trained by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture in the conservation of diverse objects of art, Fredy worked conserving historical art pieces, dating from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Peru.

See more of Fredy’s work on his website or on his Instagram page

Jason Boone

Jason was born and raised on a working small farm in NW MO. From an early age his curiosity developed and grew through woodworking. He also had a natural inclination towards entrepreneurship, which manifested itself in selling woodcraft patterns door to door, and later returning with a finished product. In 2003 Jason earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State and worked professionally in architecture offices for a decade, including four with renowned firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Craving a more hands-on outlet than the Architecture world could provide Jason combined his childhood passion for woodworking with his design training and started experimenting in Sculpture. This experimenting quickly outgrew his home work space leading him to take up an Artist in Residency position at John Metzlers Urban Tree Forge. While there Jason’s curiosity immersed itself in John’s vision of reclaiming Pittsburgh’s aging forest and creating quality wood products. With John’s untimely death in 2010, Jason stepped up to fulfill existing UTF contracts and later founded Urban Tree to preserve and evolve the work of its predecessor.